Natfhe demands inquiry on FE
LECTURERS' union Natfhe has called for a Dearing-style inquiry into further education. Natfhe's national executive voted last Friday to campaign for "an urgent short inquiry" into further education...
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Natfhe demands inquiry on FE
Unless the squeeze on funding for further education in Wales is relaxed, quality is under serious threat. That is the warning 19 chairs of governors of further education colleges in Wales have issued...
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Shephard to face law on pensions
Natfhe has issued a legal challenge to education secretary Gillian Shephard, claiming she may be exceeding her powers by attempting to reform early retirement regulations. Natfhe solicitor Michael...
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Stephen Frying tonight
A bad week for Sir Ron. On Monday an FT interview on the broad thrust of the representations given to his committee was billed as having "outlined his vision" for higher education: "a little bit...
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Hot desking
Excitement mounts at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals as it prepares to move into new headquarters, a few doors down from its rambling rooms in Bloomsbury's Tavistock Square. Some...
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Entrance exam
Prima donnas have a tendency to arrive fashionably late. But occasionally the ploy can misfire and spoil the entrance altogether. Take Oxford's eagerly awaited commission of inquiry, preparing to...
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Left alone
Given the Government's propensity for blaming almost anything that goes wrong on the last Labour government, led by reckless ultra-leftist James Callaghan, there is something quite touching about the...
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Scientists for Labour
Scientists for Labour, a pressure group devoted to raising the profile of science issues in the party, discussed the Government's role in food safety at a one-day conference this week called "Feeding...
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Four working lives made misery
In response to a request for individuals' examples of bullying in universities and colleges, 23 people rang The THES. All preferred to remain anonymous. Here are four of their stories. Jennifer A has...
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Mechanical nose
SCIENTISTS at Rome's Tor Vergata University have developed a machine "nose" that analyses human body odours. The idea is that a person's health affects what they smell like. Thus the analyses of the...
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Bain drain
London Business School principal George Bain is stepping down - apparently for fear that he may start to spoil his own good work. "I am a firm believer that more institutions are ruined by people at...
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Without a dent
Alumna to be proud of No 93 is Baroness Denton, the junior Northern Ireland minister under fire for allegedly flouting the province's fair employment rules and condoning sectarianism in her private...
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Charity claims 'fraud'
The Public Accounts Committee's report on financial control of vocational training has skimmed the surface of a "multi-billion pound vocational education and training fraud", claims education human...
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DFEE called to account
National Vocational Qualifications are in trouble. Phil Baty reports on accusations of massive fraud. "Incorrect payments" by the Department for Education and Employment to providers of national...
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Snow-capped
(Photograph) - Snow-capped: Claire Crofts (left), a postgraduate sculptor at Gray's School of Art, and lecturer Sarah McKenzie-Smith, try on specialist kit donated by the marines of 45 Commando Group...